USP-S | Check Engine (Factory New)

This is the USP-S | Check Engine in Factory New (FN). The float here runs from 0.00 to 0.07, the narrowest band of the skin: just 12% of its scale. It is a USP for the Counter-Terrorist side in CS2, a Mil-Spec skin from The 2018 Inferno Collection. The skin has no regular case and comes only from tournament souvenir packages.

What the USP-S | Check Engine looks like in Factory New

The pistol is bright red and covered end to end in a mesh of rounded hexagonal cells. The cells are dark red with an olive-brown tint, and almost black in places. Each has a dark outline and a lighter center, so the mesh looks like both honeycomb and scales.

The pattern covers the frame, slide, grip and the whole suppressor. The sight and the trigger stay dark. The name hints at a car dashboard, but neither a dashboard nor any car badges appear on the skin.

The paint is even, with no chips visible. Wear on a lot is fixed at drop, so the neatest copies sit at the lower edge of the band.

What to check before buying

What matters when buying the USP-S | Check Engine:

• float: the limits of this wear are 0.00 and 0.07, and the difference between lots is small;


• stickers and a name tag: on the USP-S | Check Engine they go with the lot;


• whether the copy is Souvenir or regular: a Souvenir one has the tournament's gold stickers on the weapon.

The 0.00 to 0.07 stretch is short, and the difference between lots falls within noise. The pattern is the same on every copy, so the only thing left to choose by is stickers.

What the USP-S | Check Engine costs in Factory New

This is the skin's most expensive wear. Minimal Wear is cheaper by 1.94 times, Field-Tested by 3 times, Well-Worn by 2.73 times and Battle-Scarred by 3.33 times.

Among the fifteen Mil-Spec skins for the USP-S, this one at Factory New sits above the middle: four are cheaper and ten are more expensive. Close in price are Silent Shot, Torque and Night Ops. Below are Alpine Camo and PC-GRN. At the top of the row, Stainless costs tens of times more, and Blueprint and Business Class cost still more.

Getting the USP-S | Check Engine

The skin has no regular case. It drops from the Inferno tournament souvenir packages, and there are eleven of them. A trade-up works too for the USP-S | Check Engine: ten skins one rank lower, one collection.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The USP-S | Check Engine has no StatTrak version. Souvenir copies exist: they were issued in the Inferno tournament packages and can also be made through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the USP-S | Check Engine

The scarlet base with its dark mesh leaves little calm space: a sticker will always land on the cells. At Factory New the surface is clean, and stickers sit on untouched paint.

Who this wear suits

Buying the USP-S | Check Engine in Factory New makes sense when:

• you want a red USP with the cleanest paint the skin offers;


• you are building a loadout around the 2018 Inferno collection and a top float matters;


• you need a pistol for stickers where the paint around them is untouched.